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    European Ceramics and Glass Including Two German Private Collections

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    10 July 2007

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    • A PAIR OF MEISSEN CHINOISERIE
    Lot 143

    A PAIR OF MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS

    CIRCA 1723-24, GILDER'S 40. TO EACH PIECE, DREHER'S INCISED TO TEABOWLS AND X TO SAUCERS

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    GBP 6,000

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    GBP 5,000 - GBP 7,000

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    A PAIR OF MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
    CIRCA 1723-24, GILDER'S 40. TO EACH PIECE, DREHER'S INCISED TO TEABOWLS AND X TO SAUCERS
    En suite to the preceding, painted by P.E. Schindler with Orientals on terraces, one teabowl with a man kneeling and holding a bird, the other with a lady holding a fan and seated by a low oval table with a teapot, vases and a large vase with coral, within similar cartouches, one saucer with a lady with her arm raised and standing by a bird, the other with a standing lady holding a fan, within similar cartouches and borders (teabowls with wear to gilt rims, minute wear to cartouches, saucers with some wear to cartouches and rims, minute areas of wear to scenes, underside of rim of one with small rim chip and other with very small firing fault) (2)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Exhibited

    Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.


    Lot Essay

    The figures on the saucers are the same as two figures on an iron-red chinoiserie service dispersed in these Rooms on 28th June 1976. One saucer, formerly lot 139, which corresponds to the saucer illustrated on the left here, is now in Hoffmeistser Collection and is illustrated by Dieter Hoffmeister, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts' Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), p. 38-39, no. 12. Another saucer, formerly lot 141, which corresponds to the saucer illustrated here on the right, is now in the Carabelli Collection, and is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, 'Early Meissen Porcelain, Carabelli Collection' Catalogue (Munich, 2000), pp. 34-35, no. 3.

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